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...good buddies" are sure learnin' fast how to outfox Smokey the Bear. The sophisticated way to beat speeding tickets is to use a miniaturized radar-emission detector. Mounted on a dashboard, it flashes a light and then sounds a high-pitched beep when the vehicle approaches a radar trap. "This is the fastest-growing area of consumer electronics," says Cy Robinson of a Richardson, Texas, firm called Autotronics that sells "Snoopers" ($89.95) and "Super Snoopers" ($149.95). Super Snooper claims to be able to sniff out "over-the-hill and around-the-corner detection...
...most-played AM variety of songs. The beat keeps right on thumpety-thumping beneath whining guitars--hardly intellectual rock but then that's what gives it its appeal. Esoteric rock, with a "message" can become as boring as vitamin pills--this stuff, however, doesn't fall into that trap. Typically an ARS song begins with a minimum of frills, a few tight riffs and you're rocking down the highway with them, wishing like Hunter S. Thompson's Samoan attorney that your tin-pot radio could turn higher...
Henry Kissinger sought to avoid this trap by arguing that policy must be based on a mutual self-interest, not on moral approval. Principles could be proclaimed, but any attempt to change conditions in other countries had to be made behind the scenes, if only because sovereign nations cannot allow themselves to be pushed around in public...
...began noting how uncannily well informed Soviet diplomats seemed to be on confidential Norwegian positions regarding European Community membership. Norwegian counterintelligence slapped a tight surveillance on Soviet diplomats in Oslo and eventually caught Printsipalov meeting with Haavik. After tracking the pair painstakingly for several months, they finally sprang their trap...
...center and the left, wisely refrained from any street demonstrations that might lead to further violence. Simon Sanchez Montero, a leader of the Spanish Communists, charged that rightists hoped to rekindle the hatreds of Spain's bloody Civil War of 1936-39. "We will not fall into that trap," he said. Labor leaders cautioned against any general work stoppage to protest the murders but sanctioned dozens of individual strikes...